A Non-Practitioner Eye witnessed Atrocities in the Shuangcheng Detention Centre

I do not practise Falun Gong. Below I shall recount what I personally witnessed in the Shuangcheng Detention Centre, Heilongjiang Province.

Friday, March 5th, 2004, was the most awful day and one that I will never forget. I witnessed the most frightful tragedy in the human world. The cruel torture and death of Falun Gong practitioners by the police in Shuangcheng Detention Centre left an indelible impression in the depths of my mind. Whenever I recall the extremely cruel scenes, I shudder uncontrollably and my heart aches to the breaking point.

At about 10:30 that day, a group of policemen, led by Zhu Xiaobo, the deputy head of the detention centre, dragged Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Xiao Yali and Gu Xiuxian from their cell to a confinement cell on the east side for forced feeding. Zhu Xiaobo pried open Ms. Xiao's mouth with a pair of pliers. Ms. Xiao struggled in agony and broke two feeding injectors with her clenched teeth. Zhu Xiaobo's accomplice, Wang Jianwen, Guo Weiyu, and director Sun Shiyou started to savagely force-feed the feeble Ms. Xiao. Her suffering was indescribable. These butchers, totally devoid of humanity, held Ms. Gu Xiuxian down on a tiger bench¹, in the manner of slaughtering pigs, to force feed her. Ms. Gu screamed in agony: "Stop, Please stop!" Zhu Xiaobo shouted: "Force feed her! It doesn't matter if she dies from it." To please Zhu Xiaobo, policemen Wang Jianwen and Guo Weiyu stepped up the torture on Ms. Gu. In less than 5 minutes Ms. Gu could not catch her breath. The police then moved her onto the ground. After a little while, Ms. Gu stopped breathing.

At about 1:00 in the afternoon, Ms. Xiao Yali's moans and groans of pain were heard coming from the prison area. However, the venomous Zhu Xiaobo said Ms. Xiao was putting it on and said not to pay any attention to her. Guo Weiyu took advantage of her vulnerable situation to force her to write a "guarantee" that she would give up practising Falun Gong regardless of the condition she was in. It was heartless to the extreme.

At about 9:00 the next morning, Zhu Xiaobo received reports that Ms. Xiao Yali was suffering from great pain, but he was totally unmoved and said reflexively that Ms. Xiao was feigning her suffering. Without doing anything for Ms. Xiao, he went with the head of the detention centre, Jin and Sun Shiyou to attend to the funeral arrangements for Ms. Gu Xiuxian.

The family members of Gu Xiuxian did not ask for any compensation for her death because they had no idea how she died. Zhu Xiaobo and others could not be more pleased with themselves and indulged themselves with food and drinks, completely forgetting the wellbeing of Ms. Xiao Yali. At the same time, a fellow practitioner of Ms. Xiao's reported to the prison guard on duty, Huang, that Xiao Yali was suffering from chest pain and shortness of breath. However, Huang and Zhu Xiaobo are jackals from the same lair and said that Ms. Xiao was just putting on an act. Shortly past 6:00 in the evening, Zhu Xiaobo and Sun Shiyou returned after wining and dining themselves. Seeing that Ms. Xiao was already on the verge of death, they said to her: "Stop acting!" and ordered her to walk. At this point Ms. Xiao had no energy left. Two inmates carried her to the vehicle. She died only a little while after the vehicle took off. The police got a death certificate from the hospital and then transported her body back to the detention centre.

The bodies of Ms. Xiao Yali and Ms. Gu Xiuxian were placed in an ice cabinet in the detention centre. At about midnight, people heard the distressing cry of Ms. Xiao Yali, "I did no wrong, I died a wrongful death." The cry reverberated in the darkness of the night off and on until the next morning. It reached Jin, the head of the detention centre, Zhu Xiaobo and Sun Shiyou. They were so scared that they could not sleep all night. The next morning, Sun asked prison guard Si Hui to see if Ms. Xiao Yali was still in the ice cabinet. Si Hui timidly went to check and reported that she was still there. Zhu Xiaobo and Sun Shiyou were greatly relieved.

Ms. Xiao Yali and Ms. Gu Xiuxian committed no crimes. They were simply practitioners of Falun Gong, with firm belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." Why were they so cruelly tortured? Is it because the principle, "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" violates the communist party's "Deception, Wickedness and Violence" rule? The real criminals, the corrupt communist officials who empty the state coffers by stealing are swiftly promoted and remain free and unfettered by the law. This fully reveals the evil nature of the malevolent Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Corrupt officials who plunder the flesh and blood of the people are glorified as the epitome of "progressive." The country is dependent on keeping this group of public security police and judiciary officials who stop at no evil to maintain this kind of "morality," and to hold up the rule of a regime teetering on the brink of collapse. People of conscience, please wake up and say goodbye to the evil CCP, break through the darkness, and welcome the dawn of the new century.

The CCP regime is like a rotten apple. "Keeping it fresh" can only prolong the inevitable, it will completely rot eventually. Why not make a clean break from it now and get a new lease on life? Why accompany it to the grave for nothing?

Note

1. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/23/125861.html